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Now WhatsApp is actively trying to calm down and keep its users by addressing their concerns.The new privacy policy from WhatsApp had a massive backlash for the company, as now users are moving away from it and choosing other messaging platforms instead. According to Apptopia, Signal and Telegram downloads have
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During a Christmas rally that has pushed the Bitcoin all time high mark ever higher, a pair of recent tweets indicate that a former critic of the digital currency is continuing to take steps towards a full-blown hodler conversion: billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban. The Tweet
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Donations keep pouring in for leading cryptocurrency think tank and advocacy group Coin Center. Announced Wednesday, a $175,000 donation to the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit was made by five industry players: NEAR Foundation, Celo Foundation, The Graph, Interchain Foundation and Solana.Coin Center has also raked in over $300,000 this month from
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It has become clear by now that central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be in our future and the technology will fundamentally change the use of money and the economic system as a whole.The world’s biggest economies and their central banks have announced they are working on CBDCs: the
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Payments startup Circle is getting political.The stablecoin issuer is working with the U.S. government to bypass Nicolás Maduro and support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by Juan Guaidó.Circle is using USDC, the dollar-pegged stablecoin it issues with Coinbase, to distribute relief funds to medical workers and other Venezuelan locals,
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A reading of Kenneth Rogoff’s latest piece on the strange reality of the dollar’s global status. On this week’s edition of Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads former IMF chief and current Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff’s latest Op-Ed, “The Calm Before the Exchange Rate Storm” in Project Syndicate. Source
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Gary Gensler, a Washington and Wall Street veteran who has closely studied the budding cryptocurrency field, will lead the financial policy transition team for projected U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.A former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Gensler was tapped to lead the agency review team for the Federal
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Andrei Anisimov, whose LInkedIn profile still describes him as a “Senior Software Engineer” at Coinbase, tweeted Saturday that this had been his last week at the cryptocurrency exchange. At press time it wasn’t clear whether Anisimov was one of the 60 people who accepted a severance package that was
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WWE reportedly plans to take over ownership of its wrestlers’ Twitch accounts.The company will apparently keep most of the revenue they make from streaming, and the wrestlers’ cut will count towards their base salary.Andrew Yang has slammed the company over the move.Last month, WWE brought the hammer down on its
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